-
If you are having trouble changng your password please click here for help.
Warbird Pictures
- Thread starter Sandman
- Start date
Thank you for sharing !!
Now that's a plane with a big gun GAU 8 Avenger
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2013
- Messages
- 9,545
- Reaction score
- 10,879
T
The forked tail devil!
I got to see Glacier Girl during the restoration process, I was a there for the first flight as well. My grandfather Flew the canopy from Pittsburgh glass to middlesboro, he was friends with Roy Shoffner before he passed.
Awesome! Thanks for posting. My little boy loves them.
My grandfather flew a B25 in the pacific theater till the end of the war
This is his crew in front of the plane. My grandfather wa sin the back row standing on the right side of the picture
His plane Dutch (Dutch was what he called my grandmother a nurse, the image painted on the plane is supposedly a cartoonish version of her. she was actually German but they said she was dutch to avoid and contempt or ill feeling from anyone) with his at the time co-pilot Roy in the pilots seat, my grandfather took the picture. He was a professional photographer and as I'm the only amateur photographer in the family I ended up with all his gear (some of which I still use) including the medium format camera he used to take this photo
I've always loved planes from that era. My grandfather is the reason I'm so into photography and why I always wanted to be a military pilot.. of course the Diabetes (that I also presumably got from him as he was the only recorded diabetic in the family, though his onset came later in life (mine was diagnosed at 14, he was in his 30s I believe) we are (were) both insulin dependent.
This is his crew in front of the plane. My grandfather wa sin the back row standing on the right side of the picture
His plane Dutch (Dutch was what he called my grandmother a nurse, the image painted on the plane is supposedly a cartoonish version of her. she was actually German but they said she was dutch to avoid and contempt or ill feeling from anyone) with his at the time co-pilot Roy in the pilots seat, my grandfather took the picture. He was a professional photographer and as I'm the only amateur photographer in the family I ended up with all his gear (some of which I still use) including the medium format camera he used to take this photo
I've always loved planes from that era. My grandfather is the reason I'm so into photography and why I always wanted to be a military pilot.. of course the Diabetes (that I also presumably got from him as he was the only recorded diabetic in the family, though his onset came later in life (mine was diagnosed at 14, he was in his 30s I believe) we are (were) both insulin dependent.
Last edited:
so gorgeous
My wife's stepfather, Carl Rudder, was one of the P38 pilots that had to ditch on the icecap in Greenland. He was at the 57th Bomber Group Restaurant and overheard Pat Epps and Richard Taylor talking about the planes. He shared the true story of how the 2 B17s and 6 P38s ended up there. They tried to get him to go with them when they pulled the last piece of Glacier Girl out of the ice. He politely refused, said he had already walked many miles to be rescued off the ice and did not care to do it again. I have a few copies of the book "The Lost Squadron" that tells the story of how the planes got there, how they were found and one recovered and the start of the restoration of Glacier Girl. It is amazing that they even found the planes much less recovered one, they were under just over 270 feet of ice. There are 5 more P38s still trapped under the ice, no telling how much thicker the ice is now.
